That happened to me on my last 2 engines. As you found out, if all is well, it only takes maybe 30 seconds or so to get a good prime.
I primed a few minutes, turned the engine some, primed some more.

A word of caution. If you coated the cam real good with the cam paste, don't over prime the engine, you could rinse off all the paste.

Just make sure it fires quickly and runs for the 30 minutes at fast idle, around 1,600 to 2,000 rpm. Might be good to fire it outside incase you need to cool the radiator with the hose or something. Also, have a timing light hooked up and ready too so you don't have to shut it down for adjustments.

The lower part of the oil pump priming tool fits into an oil galley that feeds the passenger side lifters. If you have a tool that doesn't have this lower half, you won't get oil up to the rocker arms, because a big chunk of the galley is missing.http://paceperformance.com/index.asp...D&ProdID=25140

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